Education: School Ball

On a black horse and dressed in black
velvet, John Gielgud came as "Night." On a white horse Gertrude
Lawrence came as "Day." Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, "Silver Rain," wore
600 yards of silver-lined bugle fringe, a headdress six feet wide
illuminated with blue neon tubes. Gypsy Rose Lee wore spangles. That
was the seventeenth Beaux-Arts Ball which took place at Manhattan's
Hotel Astor last week.

Long before Actor Gielgud and Actress Lawrence had returned their mounts
to the Ben Hur Livery Stables and the Ball was over, a small gentleman
in...